“Television Resurrections”: Television and Memory

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The Clarendon Press, 2000). For an innovatory attempt to write British commercial television into this history, see Rob Turnock, and Consumer Culture: Britain and the Transformation of Modernity (London: I. B. Tauris, 2007). 23. Dick Hebdige gives one of the classic accounts of the British romance with U.S. culture in Towards a Cartography of Taste, in his Hiding in the Light (London: Comedia/ Routledge, 1988). The key point of the argument is that U.S. culture seems to offer working-class people a liberation from the class stratification of British society. 24. There is a substantial history of scholarship in Britain on cultural policy and social theory, but little of it could be characterized as Television Studies. See, for example, Nicholas Garnham, Emancipation, the Media and Modernity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), and Jim McCuigan, Culture and the Public Sphere (London: Routledge, 1996). 25. For a succinct summary of the issues at stake, see Sylvia Harvey's Ofcom's First Year and Neoliberalism's Blind Spot: Attacking the Culture of Production, Screen 47, no. 1 (2006): 91-105. 26. Amanda Lotz, If It's Not TV, What Is It? The Case of U.S. Subscription Television, in Cable Visions: Beyond Broadcasting, ed. Sarah Banet-Weiser, Cynthia Chris, and Anthony Freitas (New York: New York University Press, 2007), 85-102. 27. See, for example, Tim O'Sullivan, Television Memories and Cultures of Viewing 1950-65, in Popular in Britain: Studies in Cultural History, ed. John Corner (London: British Film Institute, 1991), 159-81; and Nostalgia, Revelation and Intimacy: Tendencies in the Flow of Modern Popular Television, in Geraghty and Lusted, The Studies Book, 198-209; Myra MacDonald, Performing Memory on Television: Documentary and the 1960s, Screen 47, no. 3 (2006): 327-45; Karen Lury, British Youth Television: Cynicism and Enchantment (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001); and Amy Holdsworth (see article below). 28. Asa Briggs, cited by Stefan Collini in Mainly Fair, Moderate or Good, Guardian Saturday Review (September 22, 2007): 4-6, quotation on page 6; and Briggs, The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom vols. 1-5 (London: Oxford University Press, 1961, 1965, 1970, 1979, 1995).